George Armistead has been birding for more than twenty years and hails from Philadelphia, where he attended the University of Pennsylvania and completed both a B.A. and an M.A. in environmental studies. He worked for seven years in the ornithology department of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and remains an associate there. He spends much of his free time birding his favorite haunts along the coast between Cape May, New Jersey, and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

He has also traveled extensively elsewhere in North America and abroad to places ranging from Central and South America to the Caribbean, Europe, northern Africa, Asia, and most recently to the subantarctic islands of New Zealand and Australia. Field Guides Alaska participants may recognize George from his stint on St. Paul in the Bering Sea, where he directed the TDX St. Paul Island tour program.

His writing and photographs have appeared in a number of ornithological publications, and George has served on the Pennsylvania Ornithological Records Committee, the Delaware Bird Records Committee, and the Virginia Avian Records Committee.

He enjoys all types of birding but is especially fond of seabirds and shorebirds. George has a great way with people and birds alike and has become an integral member of the Field Guides staff since his first tour in 2002.